nvidia settings

[Frylock2009]

I have a lil annoyance with boot up and my display/refresh rate settings. Well right from the get go before the propriety drivers were installed I could set and boot x with 1024x768, 80 refresh but after propriety drivers only 800x600 was available. So I have to manually set nvidia to desired display and res at boot up every time, of course my twin view as well. Apparently I cannot save nvidia settings to xconf, Had many issues when I tried that. Is there a way to save nvidia configuration and load it at boot up in sessions?

Btw...Running Ubuntu jaunty jackalope 9.4 with XFCE d.m

[devils casper]

Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file here.

[reed9]

Apparently I cannot save nvidia settings to xconf, Had many issues when I tried that. Is there a way to save nvidia configuration and load it at boot up in sessions?

Are you opening nvidia-settings with root privileges? Hit ALT+F2 and type gksudo nvidia-settings to do so.

[Frylock2009]

yes I have saved to x wit "sudo nvidia-settings" before. But from what I understand nvidia and x do not play well together, also from personal experience. When I save nvidia settings to x, whenever I restart x It messes with rendering..say like cairo-dock...cant see anything but white where its supposed to be, applets nothing but a white box and so on. Is there a script I can create to load nvidia settings separately from x?

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

[Frylock2009]

Ok, I stand corrected, The team must have fixed the issue with nvidia and xorg, I ended up trying to save nvidia settings to xorg.conf restarted x and everything is great.

(edit) I spoke to soon....I cant get no window borders and some windows (terminal) for one is completely white and cannot see nothing I type...
Here's the nvidia generated config merged with xorg.conf...

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@palmer) Sun Feb 1 20:21:04 UTC 2009

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "HP MX50"
HorizSync 30.0 - 54.0
VertRefresh 47.0 - 100.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[elija]

The only differences (apart from diferent cards) that I can see in my xorg.conf is that I have both of these set in mine

Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "Xinerama" "1"

so try changing

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection

to

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option         "Xinerama" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection

Mine works flawlessly across multiple monitors using nvidia. I even get a single desktop cube across the monitors which looks ridiculously cool!

[Frylock2009]

I don't get it...

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Xinerama" "1"
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

No change, still no window border and as far as I can tell (so far) its only the terminal windows that opens as a white box. Any suggestions on what I can change here would be great!